note 105130 added to function.str-replace

php 5.3.2 (may exist before, but it never saw it until today) the replace is always evaluated before the search takes place. So if like me you use str_replace to replace some macros in the html code, and these replacement call a function, you must be aware that the functions always runs, not only when the search is found. for example: str_replace ( array ('%macro1%', '%macro2%'), array (myfunction1(), myfunction2(), thesource); myfunction1() and myfunction2() are called regardless of the fact that the source contains %macro1%' or '%macro2%' or not. I genuinely believed that myfunction1 would only be called if %macro1% was found (resp myfunction2 and %macro2%) I noticed it because myfunction1 was running a database query to increment a value and I noticed that this value was incremented w/o need. It took me a wee while to get to the bottom of it ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 81.65.73.5 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.str-replace.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/105130 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/105130/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/105130/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/105130/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/105130/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/105130/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/105130/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/105130 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/105130 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php